Carlos Fraenkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos Fraenkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraenkel |
| SIGNATURE | FRAENKEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides
Teaching Plato in Palestine
Teaching Plato in Palestine
Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, lapsed Hasidic Jews in New York, teenagers from poor neighborhoods in Brazil, and the descendants of Iroquois warriors in Canada. They turn to Plato and Aristotle,…
Teaching Plato in Palestine
Spinoza on Miracles and the Truth of the Bible
Three articles, by Steven Nadler, Carlos Fraenkel, and Warren Zev Harvey, constitute a "symposium" on a particular set of issues in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: how to reconcile Spinoza's account of the interpretation of Scripture (and the distinction between truth and meaning) with some remarks he says about miraculous events as related in Scripture
Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza
Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture
The Rationalists
Theocracy and Autonomy in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
According to both contemporary intuitions and scholarly opinion, autonomy is something specifically modern. It is certainly taken to be incompatible with religions like Islam and Judaism, if these are invested with political power. Both religions are seen as centered on a divine Law ( sharî ‘a, viz., torah) which prescribes what we may and may not do, promising reward for obedience and threatening punishment for disobedience. Not we, but God make…
Ḥasdai Crescas on God as the Place of the World and Spinoza's Notion of God as Res Extensa
A passage in Or ha-Shem [Light of the Lord], the major work of Ḥasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11), the Jewish critic of medieval Aristotelianism, is adduced here as contributing to Spinoza's decisive step beyond the Aristotelian doctrine of God, namely, the integration of the attribute of extension into the "active essence" of God's infinite being. According to Crescas place, correctly conceived, is void. "Many among the ancients," he argues, identifi…
Maimonides, Averroes, and Samuel Ibn Tibbon on a Skandalon of Medieval Science
Maimonides, Averroes, and Samuel Ibn Tibbon on a Skandalon of Medieval Science Carlos Fraenkel (bio) Joel Kraemer has recently made an interesting contribution to the ongoing debate about Maimonides’ stance in Guide 2:24 on what has been called a skandalon of medieval science:1 the incompatibility of Ptolemy’s astronomy with Aristotle’s celestial physics.2 As I understand it, the main thesis for which Prof. Kraemer argues is twofold: (1) He propo…
From the Pythagorean Void to Crescas' God as the Place of the World
The Problem of Anthropomorphism in a Hitherto Unknown Passage from Samuel ibn Tibbon's Ma'amar Yiqqawu ha-Mayim and in a Newly-Discovered Letter by David ben Saul
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
The Rationalists
Theocracy and Autonomy in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
According to both contemporary intuitions and scholarly opinion, autonomy is something specifically modern. It is certainly taken to be incompatible with religions like Islam and Judaism, if these are invested with political power. Both religions are seen as centered on a divine Law ( sharî ‘a, viz., torah) which prescribes what we may and may not do, promising reward for obedience and threatening punishment for disobedience. Not we, but God make…
The Problem of Anthropomorphism in a Hitherto Unknown Passage from Samuel ibn Tibbon's Ma'amar Yiqqawu ha-Mayim and in a Newly-Discovered Letter by David ben Saul
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Maimonides, Averroes, and Samuel Ibn Tibbon on a Skandalon of Medieval Science
Maimonides, Averroes, and Samuel Ibn Tibbon on a Skandalon of Medieval Science Carlos Fraenkel (bio) Joel Kraemer has recently made an interesting contribution to the ongoing debate about Maimonides’ stance in Guide 2:24 on what has been called a skandalon of medieval science:1 the incompatibility of Ptolemy’s astronomy with Aristotle’s celestial physics.2 As I understand it, the main thesis for which Prof. Kraemer argues is twofold: (1) He propo…
From the Pythagorean Void to Crescas' God as the Place of the World
Ḥasdai Crescas on God as the Place of the World and Spinoza's Notion of God as Res Extensa
A passage in Or ha-Shem [Light of the Lord], the major work of Ḥasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11), the Jewish critic of medieval Aristotelianism, is adduced here as contributing to Spinoza's decisive step beyond the Aristotelian doctrine of God, namely, the integration of the attribute of extension into the "active essence" of God's infinite being. According to Crescas place, correctly conceived, is void. "Many among the ancients," he argues, identifi…
The Rationalists
Theocracy and Autonomy in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
According to both contemporary intuitions and scholarly opinion, autonomy is something specifically modern. It is certainly taken to be incompatible with religions like Islam and Judaism, if these are invested with political power. Both religions are seen as centered on a divine Law ( sharî ‘a, viz., torah) which prescribes what we may and may not do, promising reward for obedience and threatening punishment for disobedience. Not we, but God make…
Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture
Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza
Spinoza on Miracles and the Truth of the Bible
Three articles, by Steven Nadler, Carlos Fraenkel, and Warren Zev Harvey, constitute a "symposium" on a particular set of issues in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: how to reconcile Spinoza's account of the interpretation of Scripture (and the distinction between truth and meaning) with some remarks he says about miraculous events as related in Scripture
Teaching Plato in Palestine
Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, lapsed Hasidic Jews in New York, teenagers from poor neighborhoods in Brazil, and the descendants of Iroquois warriors in Canada. They turn to Plato and Aristotle,…
Teaching Plato in Palestine
Teaching Plato in Palestine
Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (7 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works)